Although Claudia Winkleman has been a member of the Strictly Come Dancing family for 21 years, she announced today that she will be leaving the show.
Strictly Come Dancing’s Claudia Winkleman previously offered a brutally honest reflection on her journey with the beloved BBC programme, ahead of announcing her departure from the show earlier today.
The presenter first appeared on Strictly’s spin-off series It Takes Two in 2004, before co-presenting the Sunday results program with Tess Daly.
Following Sir Bruce Forsyth’s decision to leave the series, she then moved up to Tess on Saturday nights from 2014 onward.
She spoke candidly about her Strictly experience, especially given that the series is “completely run by women,” during an interview with Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett last year on the Dish podcast.
The actress acknowledged that “we are a proper gang and it is a show, no offence, completely run by women, and this is going to make everyone feel nauseous, but it is true life.”
She continued, “We’ve all been through all kinds of things together, whether it’s getting pregnant, meeting someone, or breaking up with someone,” adding, “We’ve all been through all kinds of things together.” The director is a BAFTA award-winning woman, the executive producer is a woman, the commissioning editor is a woman, and there are men there, and they are obviously excellent, but it’s.” Although it’s a television show, Strictly feels like family to me.
Claudia has worked on programs like BBC’s The Great British Sewing Bee and Channel 4’s The Piano, making her a household name on British television.
Her most recent venture has seen her fronting the hugely successful BBC game show The Traitors, with the first series of the celebrity version launching in recent weeks.
However, after a remarkable 15-year partnership, Claudia and Tess announced their exit from the program today, leaving Strictly viewers stunned.
In a shared Instagram video breaking the news, Tess and Claudia wrote: “We have loved working as a duo and hosting Strictly has been an absolute dream. We were always going to leave together and now feels like the right time.
We just want to say a huge thank you to the BBC and to everyone who volunteers for the show, saying “we will have the greatest rest of this amazing series.”
They continued, “We’ll miss them every day because they’re the most brilliant team.” When we say the final “keep dancing,” we will cry, but we’ll keep saying it to one another. Just possibly while eating some pizza while wearing tracksuit bottoms at home.
Source: Mirror
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